Japanese-Jamaican-Korean fusion? Korean-flavored Japanese rock with a bit of Memphis blues thrown in? It's hard to put a label on the multiethnic multigenre sounds of the Pak Poe Band.
"I'm greedy," founder and frontman Pak says with a laugh, when explaining the abundance of influences in his music.
The band's latest CD on the indie label Watch Out is "Toki wa Nagare (Time Is Flowing)," a collaboration with popular Korean musician Ohm In Ho of Shinchon Blues. The album features vocals in Korean, Japanese and English, as well as an assortment of instruments and styles. The opening track, "Mo Yame ni Shite," a high-powered dance-if-you-wanna number is enlivened by traditional Korean musicians, while "Seoul City Blues" brings B.B. King to mind.